Dinosaurs on other planets
Subtitle: stories
By: Danielle McLaughlin
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780812998429
Subjects: Irish Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: A debut collection from a deeply original writer and observer of love, betrayal, and turning points in ordinary peoples' lives. In a raw seacoast cabin, a young woman watches her boyfriend go out with his brother, late one night, on a mysterious job she realizes she isn't supposed to know about. A man gets a call at work from his sister-in-law, saying that his wife and his daughter never made it to nursery school that day. A mother learns that her teenage daughter has told a teacher about problems in her parents' marriage that were meant to be private--problems the mother herself tries to ignore. McLaughlin conveys these characters so vividly that readers will feel they are experiencing real life. Often the stories turn on a single, fantastic moment of clarity--after which nothing can be the same.
Table of contents: title: The art of foot-binding --; title: Those that I fight I do not hate --; title: All about Alice --; title: Along the heron-studded river --; title: Night of the silver fox --; title: Not oleanders --; title: Silhouette --; title: A different country --; title: The smell of dead flowers --; title: In the act of falling --; title: Dinosaurs on other planets.